Dr Alessio Fracasso

Senior Lecturer (School of Psychology & Neuroscience)

email: Alessio.Fracasso@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

I am a neuroscientist interested in the link between sensory stimulation, action, and perception. My goal is to understand the neurophysiology of the sensory-motor and visual systems using psychophysics and imaging methods (structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging – MRI/fMRI). Besides fundamental sensory-motor questions, I apply the knowledge o the sensory systems to ophthalmological and neurological manifestations. I have worked on a range of topics including schizophrenia, clinical applications, plasticity, retinotopic organization and neuroanatomy using computational, behavioral and neuroimaging methods.

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2025

Brunner, G. et al. (2025) Choroid plexus morphology in schizophrenia and early-stage psychosis: a cross-sectional study. Schizophrenia Research, 275, pp. 107-114. (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.12.005) (PMID:39693679)

Burns, Charles D.G., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Rousselet, Guillaume A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0006-8729 (2025) Bias in data-driven replicability analysis of univariate brain-wide association studies. Scientific Reports, 15, 6105. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-89257-w)

2024

Dalby, Connor, Dibble, Austin Jon, Carvalheiro, Joana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5481, Queirazza, Filippo, Sevegnani, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9481, Harvey, Monika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-1174, Svanera, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2024) Delineating in-vivo T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex using 7-tesla MRI. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.05.605123)

Taylor, Rebecca, Buonocore, Antimo and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2024) Saccadic “inhibition” unveils the late influence of image content on oculomotor programming. Experimental Brain Research, (doi: 10.1007/s00221-024-06890-z) (PMID:39080097) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Buonocore, Antimo and Hafed, Ziad M. (2023) Peri-saccadic orientation identification performance and visual neural sensitivity are higher in the upper visual field. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(41), pp. 6884-6897. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1740-22.2023) (PMID:3764055) (PMCID:PMC10573757)

Almeida, Jorge, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Kristensen, Stephanie, Valério, Daniela, Bergström, Fredrik, Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna, Tal, Zohar and Walbrin, Jonathan (2023) Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. Communications Biology, 6(1), 940. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x) (PMID:37709924) (PMCID:PMC10502059)

Fabius, Jasper H., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Deodato, Michele, Melcher, David and Van der Stigchel, Stefan (2023) Bilateral increase in MEG planar gradients prior to saccade onset. Scientific Reports, 13, 5830. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32980-z) (PMID:37037892) (PMCID:PMC10086038)

Gaglianese, Anna, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Fernandes, Francisco G., Harvey, Ben, Dumoulin, Serge O. and Petridou, Natalia (2023) Mechanisms of speed encoding in the human middle temporal cortex measured by 7T fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 44(5), pp. 2050-2061. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.26193) (PMID:36637226) (PMCID:PMC9980888)

Bianciardi, Bianca, Gajwani, Ruchika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-320X, Gross, Joachim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3994-1006, Gumley, Andrew I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-938X, Lawrie, Stephen M., Moelling, Melina, Schwannauer, Matthias, Schultze-Lutter, Frauke, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Uhlhaas, Peter J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-2224 (2023) Investigating temporal and prosodic markers in clinical high-risk for psychosis participants using automated acoustic analysis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 17(3), pp. 327-330. (doi: 10.1111/eip.13357) (PMID:36205386)

2022

Fabius, Jasper H., Moravkova, Katarina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9642-8575 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2022) Topographic organization of eye-position dependent gain fields in human visual cortex. Nature Communications, 13, 7925. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35488-8) (PMID:36564372) (PMCID:PMC9789150)

Battaglia, Simone, Cardellicchio, Pasquale, Di Fazio, Chiara, Nazzi, Claudio, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Borgomaneri, Sara (2022) Stopping in (e)motion: reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 998714. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.998714) (PMID:36248028) (PMCID:PMC9561776)

van Dijk, Jelle A., de Jong, Maartje C., Piantoni, Gio, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Vansteensel, Mariska J., Groen, Iris. I. A., Petridou, Natalia and Dumoulin, Serge O. (2022) Intracranial recordings show evidence of numerosity tuning in human parietal cortex. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0272087. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272087) (PMID:35921261) (PMCID:PMC9348694)

Battaglia, Simone, Cardellicchio, Pasquale, Di Fazio, Chiara, Nazzi, Claudio, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Borgomaneri, Sara (2022) The influence of vicarious fear-learning in "infecting" reactive action inhibition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 946263. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.946263) (PMID:35941933) (PMCID:PMC9355887)

Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Gaglianese, Anna, Vansteensel, Mariska J., Aarnoutse, Erik J., Ramsey, Nick F., Dumoulin, Serge O. and Petridou, Natalia (2022) FMRI and intra-cranial electrocorticography recordings in the same human subjects reveals negative BOLD signal coupled with silenced neuronal activity. Brain Structure and Function, 227(4), pp. 1371-1384. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-021-02342-4) (PMID:34363092)

Battaglia, Simone, Fabius, Jasper H., Moravkova, Katarina, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Borgomaneri, Sara (2022) The neurobiological correlates of gaze perception in healthy individuals and neurologic. Biomedicines, 10(3), 627. (doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10030627) (PMID:35327431) (PMCID:PMC8945205)

2021

van Dijk, Jelle A., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Petridou, Natalia and Dumoulin, Serge O. (2021) Laminar processing of numerosity supports a canonical cortical microcircuit in human parietal cortex. Current Biology, 31(20), 4635-4640.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.082) (PMID:34418342)

Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Dumoulin, Serge O. and Petridou, Natalia (2021) Point-spread function of the BOLD response across columns and cortical depth in human extra-striate cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 202, 102034. (doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102034) (PMID:33741401)

Kristensen, Stephanie, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Dumoulin, Serge O., Almeida, Jorge and Harvey, Ben M. (2021) Size constancy affects the perception and parietal neural representation of object size. NeuroImage, 232, 117909. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117909) (PMID:33652148)

Portengen, Brendan L., Roelofzen, Carlien, Porro, Giorgio L., Imhof, Saskia M., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Naber, Marnix (2021) Blind spot and visual field anisotropy detection with flicker pupil perimetry across brightness and task variations. Vision Research, 178, pp. 79-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.10.005) (PMID:33161146)

van Dijk, Jelle A., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Petridou, Natalia and Dumoulin, Serge O. (2021) Validating linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: temporal additivity for stimulus duration manipulations. Brain Topography, 34(1), pp. 88-101. (doi: 10.1007/s10548-020-00808-y) (PMID:33210193) (PMCID:PMC7803719)

2020

Fabius, Jasper H., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Acunzo, David J., Van der Stigchel, Stefan and Melcher, David (2020) Low-level visual information is maintained across saccades, allowing for a postsaccadic hand-off between visual areas. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(49), pp. 9476-9486. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1169-20.2020) (PMID:33115930) (PMCID:PMC7724139)

Zikidi, Katia, Gajwani, Ruchika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-320X, Gross, Joachim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3994-1006, Gumley, Andrew I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-938X, Lawrie, Stephen M., Schwannauer, Matthias, Schultze-Lutter, Frauke, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Uhlhaas, Peter J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-2224 (2020) Grey-matter abnormalities in clinical high-risk participants for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 226, pp. 120-128. (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.08.034) (PMID:31740178) (PMCID:PMC7774586)

Harvey, Ben M., Dumoulin, Serge O., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Paul, Jacob M. (2020) A network of topographic maps in human association cortex hierarchically transforms visual timing-selective responses. Current Biology, 30(8), 1424-1434.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.090) (PMID:32142704) (PMCID:PMC7181178)

van Dijk, Jelle A., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Petridou, Natalia and Dumoulin, Serge O. (2020) Linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: evaluating BOLD amplitude scaling for luminance contrast manipulations. Scientific Reports, 10, 5462. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62165-x) (PMID:32214136) (PMCID:PMC7096513)

Fabius, Jasper H., Nijboer, Tanja C.W., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Van der Stigchel, Stefan (2020) Intra-saccadic displacement sensitivity after a lesion to the posterior parietal cortex. Cortex, 127, pp. 108-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.027) (PMID:32172025) (PMCID:PMC7254053)

2019

Ruotolo, A., Ruggiero, F., Raemaekers, G., Iachini, M., van der Ham, T., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Postma, A. (2019) Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations. Neuroscience, 409, pp. 235-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.021) (PMID:31004694)

Ahmadi, Khazar, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van Dijk, Jelle A., Kruijt, Charlotte, van Genderen, Maria, Dumoulin, Serge O. and Hoffmann, Michael B. (2019) Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. NeuroImage, 190, pp. 224-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053) (PMID:29524626)

Fabius, Jasper H., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Nijboer, Tanja C.W. and Van der Stigchel, Stefan (2019) Time course of spatiotopic updating across saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(6), pp. 2027-2032. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812210116) (PMID:30655348) (PMCID:PMC6369820)

2018

Klein, Barrie P., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van Dijk, Jelle A., Paffen, Chris L.E., Te Pas, Susan F. and Dumoulin, Serge O. (2018) Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 301-312. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.055) (PMID:29709626)

van der Zwaag, Wietske, Buur, Pieter F., Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van Doesum, Tessa, Uludağ, Kâmil, Versluis, Maarten J. and Marques, José P. (2018) Distortion-matched T1 maps and unbiased T1-weighted images as anatomical reference for high-resolution fMRI. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 41-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.026) (PMID:29665420)

Naber, Marnix, Roelofzen, Carlien, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Bergsma, Douwe P, van Genderen, Mies, Porro, Giorgio L and Dumoulin, Serge O (2018) Gaze-contingent flicker pupil perimetry detects scotomas in patients with cerebral visual impairments or glaucoma. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 558. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00558) (PMID:30042727) (PMCID:PMC6048245)

Ferguson, B., Petridou, N., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van Den Heuvel, M.P., Brouwer, R.M., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S. and Mandl, R.C.W. (2018) Detailed T1-weighted profiles from the human cortex measured in vivo at 3 Tesla MRI. Neuroinformatics, 16(2), pp. 181-196. (doi: 10.1007/s12021-018-9356-2) (PMID:29352389) (PMCID:PMC5984962)

Hendriks, A.D., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Arteaga de Castro, C.S., Gosselink, M.W.J.M., Luijten, P.R., Petridou, N. and Klomp, D.W.J. (2018) Maximizing sensitivity for fast GABA edited spectroscopy in the visual cortex at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3890. (doi: 10.1002/nbm.3890) (PMID:29442388) (PMCID:PMC5887933)

Dumoulin, S.O., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van der Zwaag, W., Siero, J.C.W. and Petridou, N. (2018) Ultra-high field MRI: advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function. NeuroImage, 168, pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.028) (PMID:28093360)

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Luijten, P.R., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2018) Laminar imaging of positive and negative BOLD in human visual cortex at 7 T. NeuroImage, 164, pp. 100-111. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.038) (PMID:28213112)

2017

Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Melcher, D. (2017) Pre-saccadic perception: separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178902) (PMID:28614367) (PMCID:PMC5470679)

Dumoulin, S.O., Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Zuiderbaan, W., Luijten, P.R., Wandell, B.A. and Petridou, N. (2017) In vivo evidence of functional and anatomical stripe-based subdivisions in human V2 and V3. Scientific Reports, 7, 733. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00634-6) (PMID:28389654) (PMCID:PMC5428808)

2016

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Systematic variation of population receptive field properties across cortical depth in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 139, pp. 427-438. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.048) (PMID:27374728)

Fabius, J.H., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Van Der Stigchel, S. (2016) Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades. Scientific Reports, 6, 34488. (doi: 10.1038/srep34488) (PMID:27686998) (PMCID:PMC5043283)

Fracasso, Al. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Myelin contrast across lamina at 7T, ex-vivo and in-vivo dataset. Data In Brief, 8, pp. 990-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.058) (PMID:27508254) (PMCID:PMC4961349)

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Melcher, D. (2016) Saccades influence the visibility of targets in rapid stimulus sequences: the roles of mislocalization, retinal distance and remapping. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10, 58. (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00058) (PMID:27445718) (PMCID:PMC4924485)

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Lines of Baillarger in vivo and ex vivo: myelin contrast across lamina at 7 T MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 163-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.072) (PMID:26947519)

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Koenraads, Y., Porro, G.L. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(3), pp. 324-334. (doi: 10.1111/opo.12294) (PMID:27112226)

2015

Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2015) Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), pp. 13525-13530. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515414112) (PMID:26483452) (PMCID:PMC4640722)

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Kaunitz, L. and Melcher, D. (2015) Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 4. (doi: 10.1167/15.3.4) (PMID:25761349)

van Veluw, S.J., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Visser, F., Spliet, W.G.M., Luijten, P.R., Biessels, G.J. and Zwanenburg, J.J.M. (2015) FLAIR images at 7 Tesla MRI highlight the ependyma and the outer layers of the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage, 104, pp. 100-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.011) (PMID:25315783)

2013

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Targher, S., Zampini, M. and Melcher, D. (2013) Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e62131. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062131) (PMID:23637981) (PMCID:PMC3637444)

Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Lingnau, A. and Melcher, D. (2013) Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e60787. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060787) (PMID:23593311) (PMCID:PMC3622026)

2012

Melcher, D. and Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2012) Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4), pp. 503-514. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3043-6) (PMID:22392445)

2010

Fracasso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X, Caramazza, A. and Melcher, D. (2010) Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13), 14. (doi: 10.1167/10.13.14) (PMID:21106679)

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Battaglia, Simone, Cardellicchio, Pasquale, Di Fazio, Chiara, Nazzi, Claudio, Fracasso, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X and Borgomaneri, Sara (2022) The influence of vicarious fear-learning in "infecting" reactive action inhibition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 946263. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.946263) (PMID:35941933) (PMCID:PMC9355887)

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Stable visual flow over time: dynamic eye-movement encoding in human cortex
BIAL Foundation
2021 - 2023
Stable perception of external stimuli over time: oculo-motor and visual processing mechanisms
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
2019 - 2022

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